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Cath Maige Mucrama

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Cath Maige Mucrama, Cath Maige Muccrime. Irish title for a narrative known in English as The Battle of Mag Mucrama and part of the Cycle of the Kings. The work has been described by one commentator as a political scripture, a mixture of genuine history with symbolic fiction, whose function is to propagandize rather than to entertain. Lugaid mac Con, returned from exile, defeats the kings of Munster (his own brother Eógan (3)) and of Tara, and himself becomes the king of north and south. On the night before the battle, in which both men are slain, Art mac Cuinn fathers Cormac mac Airt, one of the most famous kings of early Ireland, and Eógan (3) fathers Fiachu Muillethan, the first of the Eóganacht kings. Mag Mucrama is located west of Athenry, Co. Galway.

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See the most recent edition of text by M. O'Daly , Irish Texts Society, vol. 50 (London, 1975).

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